September 16, 2020
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“A planned life is a dead life.” – Lauren Bacall
“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” – John Irving
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.” – Laurence J. Peter
“The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.” – Clare Boothe Luce
“Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff.” – Amy Poehler
VIDEO OF THE DAY
‘Birds in Art’ back at Woodson Art Museum WAOW Through November 29
Julian Rhee, Violinist | Home Is Where the Art Is, Young Artist Series” Madison Symphony Orchestra
Choir!Choir!Choir! ft Kostis Maraveyas sing "With A Little Help From My Friends" Choir!Choir!Choir!
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TOP WISCONSIN NEWS
FROM THE WISCONSIN ARTS BOARD
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NEW NCN Articles of Interest | September 11, 2020 National Creativity Network
NEW An Open Letter to Arts and Cultural Industries: You Matter…More Than Ever Art Works Blog | National Endowment for the Arts
NEW NALAC announces Alberto Mejia as new Deputy Director National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures
COVID crisis: We need all hands on deck to save America's arts and culture economy USA Today
Job Opportunities
Job Opportunity | Executive Director Dance USA Deadline: September 21
Job Opportunity | Director of Programs Arts@Large Deadline: Until Filled Executive Director | Bergstrom Mahler Museum of Glass The QTI Group Deadline: Until Filled
Member Services Associate Museum of Wisconsin Art Deadline: Until Filled
Deadlines | Resources | Events
Deals Co-op Program TravelWisconsin.com Through December 31
Save the Dates: National Arts Education Week Americans for the Arts Through September 19
Our View: Join in statewide discussion about rural prosperity Cambridge News and Deerfield Independent September 16
Virtual Gathering Arts Education Partnership September 17 | Virtual Event
OnRamp Impact Conference gener8tor September 17
Also gener8tor Introduces Inaugural Virtual OnRamp Impact Conference gener8tor September 17
WRAP/AWA State Exhibition and Conference Wisconsin Regional Art Program September 18 - 20
Click, Bid & Win! PBS Wisconsin’s Online-Exclusive Auction Runs Sept. 18-27 PBS Wisconsin September 18 – 27
Quarterly Meeting Wisconsin Arts Board September 25 | Madison CODAsummit Virtual: The Intersection of Art, Technology and Place CODAworx.com September 30 – October 2
The Arts Midwest and Western Arts Alliance 2020 Joint Conference Arts Midwest & Western Arts Alliance Optional Pre-Conference Programs: October 1 & 2 | Virtual Event Main Conference: October 6-9, 2020 | Virtual Event
NEW Workshop #9: Music Digital Marketing Backline October 3
2020 Wisconsin Leadership Summit Madison 365 October 5 – 9 | virtual Event
Host an Event Wisconsin Science Festival October 15 – 18
Land and Equity: The Art and Politics of Place Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities October 15 - 30 | Online
Summit 2020 NACEDA October 21 – 23
22nd Annual NDEO Conference — Dance and Society: Developing Community, Empathy, and Understanding Through Dance National Dance Education Organization October 23 – 25 | Virtual Event
OVERTURE FORUMS: Intermission Edition Overture Center for the Arts October 26 | Overture’s Vital Role in the Community (Registration at a later date) November 23 | Downtown Madison Recovery (Registration at a later date)
NEW Wisconsin Fall Tourism Conference Destinations Wisconsin November 5
2020 National Young Artists Summit: An Artistic Youth Revolution Creative Youth Development National Partnership November 6-8, 2020 | Virtual Event 2020 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference: The Remix: Reimagining Power and Practice Grantmakers in the Arts November 9 – 23 | Virtual Event
Toward One Wisconsin Conference Wisconsin Institute for Public Policy and Service November 12 – 13 | Virtual Event
AIGA Design Conference AIGA November 12 - 14 | Pittsburgh, PA
Six IMLS Museum Grant Opportunities Now Open Institute of Museum and Library Services Deadline: November 16
National Guild 83rd Annual Conference for Community Arts Education National Guild for Community Arts Education November 18 – 21 | New York, NY
Artists Sunday™ National Art Shopping Movement and Campaign: Artists and Organizations Across the United States Unite to Encourage Consumers to Shop with Artists and Craftsmen the Sunday after Thanksgiving Artists Sunday November 29
Quarterly Meeting Wisconsin Arts Board December 4 | Milwaukee
NEW DATES National Arts Marketing Project Conference Americans for the Arts December 7 – 8 | Virtual
Believe in Music Week NAMM Begins January 18
POSTPONED 2020 Conference Association of Midwest Museums & Wisconsin Federation of Museums July 2021 | Milwaukee
The print version of the 2020 Arts & Crafts Fair Directory is available and may be ordered here. TravelWisconsin.com
If you’d prefer to view the Directory online, click here. NEW Online Workshops and Conversations Creative Capital Various
IN THE NEWS
Visual Arts/Museums
Lilada Gee’s artwork featured on selfie wall at the Wisconsin Historical Museum downtown Madison 365
Your questions answered about the new Milwaukee Public Museum OnMilwaukee.com
The US art market must demonstrate its integrity – or further regulation is a certainty Apollo Magazine
Syracuse Refuse: Everson Museum Discards its Pollock to “Address Inequality” & Pursue the New CultureGrrl | ArtsJournal.com
Controversial, Long-Delayed Eisenhower Memorial Finally Makes Its Debut Smart News | Smithsonian
Arts and Creativity in Education
New Additions to Racial Justice Content PBS Wisconsin
Community Arts
Tommy Bartlett Show to permanently close after 69 years Channel3000.com
Warren Gerds/Critic at Large: Coronavirus: Casting a net around the Internet, part 15 WeAreGreenBay.com
Eyes on Milwaukee | See The Hoan Bridge Lights Installation Urban Milwaukee
Is One of These Eau Claire Originals the Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin? Volume One Magazine
The New Monuments That America Needs The New Yorker
Literary Arts/Libraries Tea Krulos talks about his two new books on conspiracies and legends OnMilwaukee.com
Manitowoc library: Book groups a way to stay connected amid coronavirus pandemic Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter
Debut Novelists and Women Dominate Booker Prize Shortlist The New York Times
Ada Limón | Give Me This Poem-a-Day, Poets.org
Media Arts
Missing that mad dash forward: a movie theater appreciation Tone Madison
Movie Theaters Returned. Audiences Didn’t. Now What? The New York Times
Why Hollywood Is Facing a COVID-19 Insurance Crisis Variety
Performing Arts
Music
Is the "Mozart Effect" real? New analysis indicates that music can help epilepsy EurekAlert! | AAAS
Anthony McGill, ‘Citizen Musician,’ Wins $100,000 Award The New York Times
Other
The Five Biggest Barriers to Attending Cultural Entities in 2020 (DATA) Know Your Own Bone | Colleen Dilenschneider
How One Entrepreneur Is Making the Change She Wants to See (Listen) Variety
WHEN YOU GO
Visual Arts/Museums
'Wisconsin Funnies' highlights comics artists from the Badger State, including Denis Kitchen and Lynda Barry Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Through November 22
Birds in Art 2020 is unstoppable from the pandemic in its 45th annual event WSAW Through November 29
Upcoming WRAP conference to be hosted Sept. 18 – 20 Waushara Argus September 18 – 20
36 artists share works created amid coronavirus, George Floyd in Manitowoc-Two Rivers show Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter September 18 – October 18
Community Arts
ONLINE: Doors Open Milwaukee Isthmus September 26 – October 11
Media Arts
Minority Health Film Festival Milwaukee Film Through September 24
UN enlists slew of celebrities for film on global issues Madison.com, AP September 19
On the Basis of Sex Isthmus September 21
Performing Arts
Presenting
'Joey's Song' goes virtual to fight epilepsy in 2020 The Capital Times September 16
OPPORTUNITIES Milwaukee Neighborhood Arts Collective Application Form Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Deadline: Until Filled
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Invites Fellowship Applications PND by Candid Deadline: September 17
Classics for Kids Foundation Invites Applications From K-12 Music Programs Philanthropy News Digest by Candid Deadline: September 30
Center for Craft, Creativity, & Design Invites Applications for Research Projects Philanthropy News Digest by Candid Deadline: October 1
NEW Center for Craft Invites Applications for Artist Fellowship Philanthropy News Digest by Candid Deadline: October 1
NEW Vermont Studio Center Invites Fellowship Applications From Artists, Writers Philanthropy News Digest by Candid Deadline: October 1
National Leadership Grants for Libraries Institute of Museum and Library Services Deadline: October 2
Promoting Research on Music and Health: Phased Innovation Award for Music Interventions (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional) National Institutes of Health and National Endowment for the Arts Deadline: October 2
Light Valley Junction" permanent artwork The City of West Des Moines Deadline: October 2
Eighteenth Cycle of Fellowship Program for Visual Artists Announced Urban Milwaukee Deadline: October 8
Entries Welcome for Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters RFPs | Philanthropy News Digest Deadline: October 16
2021 "Art on the Campus" temporary exhibit The City of West Des Moines Deadline: October 30 2020 OOHPs Snowdance Playwriting Competition Over Our Head Players Deadline: November 1
NEW Grammy Museum® Grant Program: 2021 Letter of Inquiry Online Grammy.com Deadline: November 1
Performing Arts Japan (PAJ) Program Japan Foundation New York Deadline: November 2
Communities, Creativity, and Imagination: On the National Medal for Museum and Library Service Institute of Museum and Library Services Deadline: November 2
Artists Sunday™ National Art Shopping Movement and Campaign: Artists and Organizations Across the United States Unite to Encourage Consumers to Shop with Artists and Craftsmen the Sunday after Thanksgiving Artists Sunday November 29
Radcliffe Institute Accepting Applications for Fellowship Program RFPs | Philanthropy News Digest Various
Beyond Words: the Dollar General School Library Relief Fund Awards & Grants | American Library Association Deadline: None. Monthly Review
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Accepting Grant Applications From Artists in Need RFPs | Philanthropy News Digest Deadline: Open
Artfully Reimagined Invites Submissions for 'Reimagine It' Grants RFPs | Philanthropy News Digest Deadline: Open
Foundation for Contemporary Art Accepting Applications for Emergency Grants RFPs | Philanthropy News Digest Deadline: Open
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Accepting Applications for Emergency Grants RFPs | Philanthropy News Digest Deadline: Open Open Grant Solicitations Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs | US Department of State Various
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Invites Entries From Creative Teens RFP | Philanthropy News Digest Deadline: Various
NALAC Unveils New Funding For Latinx Artists National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Various Deadlines
Craft Emergency Relief Fund Accepting Applications From Craftspeople in Need Philanthropy News Digest Deadline: Open
Artfully Reimagined Invites Submissions for 'Reimagine It' Grants RFPs | PND Deadline: Open
Shubert Foundation Accepting Applications for Performing Arts Grants RFPs | Philanthropy News Digest Deadline: Various
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Invites Entries From Creative Teens Philanthropy News Digest Deadlines: Various
Local Systems The Kresge Foundation No Deadline
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